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GetToKnow - Forte Spagnolo

In 1527, the town was divided between the kingdom of Spain and the kingdom of France.
As the town choose France, the Spanish decided to repress people building a military fortress in 1532. Indeed, no one never lived in the so called “Castle”. Soon it was abandoned and then reused as barrack by theGermans during the WWII. Then, until the earthquake, it was the National Middle Age Museum, which host also a mammoth skeleton.

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